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From: Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl>
To: Didier Rwitura <drwitura@primus.ca>
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Subject: Re: Can't reboot into single mode
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On Sat, Sep 10, 2005 at 11:19:22PM -0400, Didier Rwitura wrote:
>=20
> After I upgraded my FreeBSD-5.3 to FreeBSD -5.4 stable, I can't to go to=
=20
> single user mode anymore . I am getting the following error message
>=20
> init: can't exec getty '/usr/libexec/getty' for port /dev/ttyv0
>=20
> init: can't exec getty '/usr/libexec/getty' for port /dev/ttyv1
>=20
> init: can't exec getty '/usr/libexec/getty' for port /dev/ttyv2
> =20
> init: can't exec getty '/usr/libexec/getty' for port /dev/ttyv3
>=20
> and the system hangs=20

Which begs the questions:
- does /usr/libexec/getty exist?
- is it executable?
- is /usr mounted in single user mode?

What do 'ls -l /usr/libexec/getty' and 'file /usr/libexec/getty' say?

Roland
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